I've done the searching for you! This is a regularly updated, comprehensive list of interactive sites. I only include what I consider to be worthwhile sites, accurate and with plenty of activities. My favourite is the brilliant Languages Online, from Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (UK). For interactive board use see Atantôt which offers a wide range of excellent resources. For lovely podcasts try: Podcast.net. Last updated May 2nd 2008.

MAINLY GRAMMAR

Royal Grammar School High Wycombe's (UK) excellent and attractive Languages Online site has a wide range of Hot Potato and Spellmaster exercises for all levels.

Older students will appreciate the accuracy, humour and comprehensiveness of the well-established Tex's French Grammar site, from the University of Texas, USA. The site includes mp3 files exemplifying grammatical structures.

CCDMD (Ca) has attractive interactive exercises for advanced students. NEW 10.4.08

Vanier College (Ca) has lots of good grammar and comprehension tasks for intermediate and more advanced learners.

There's plenty of good Hot Potato material, with links to other good interactive tasks at Marling School, Gloucestershire, UK.

Teachnet (UK) has a set of powerpoints designed for KS3 (age 11-14) for independent study or, possibly, teacher-led use. The material is clear, accurate, attractive and often suitable for middle to lower ability. It is written by Sylviane Breen and Caroline Gill of The City School, Sheffield.

Theale Green School's (UK) site is another one worth looking at.

The GEFOR (Fr) is a good revision site to recommend to students. It has interactive exercises from near beginner to advanced level.

Carol Reitan (USA) produced this Online Grammar Quiz.

The University of Houston (USA) site has a good menu of Hot Potato exercises for intermediate to older learners.

Language Link from Aiglon College in Switzerland has a good deal of material.

There is a fairly comprehensive set of interactive Word exercises at the San Antonio College site.

Wildfrench (UK) has very good Hotpot exercises. Click on the pictures of the textbooks first to get to the interactive tasks.

The London Metropolitain University (UK) site is sober-looking, but has plenty of material for the older learner.

There is good material at the Swarthmore (USA) site.

If you are keen on verb conjugations you can register free as a teacher, school or pupil with Conjuguemos. It is rather limited in approach, but could be alright for a keen grammar type who just wants to revise verb forms. There are some other sites where you can practise verb conjugation. Have a look at Jim Becker's list on his excellent links page.

The S-Cool!(UK) has drag and drop revision exercises for British GCSE and A-Level students.
The Langue Française(Ru) site has a 50 self-test questionson French grammar. Good for high intermediate or advanced.
The Taka(Fr) site has a self-testing conjugation exercise. Good for intermediate or advanced students. NEW 20.4.08


MIXED SKILL

The Zut (UK) site - a quite well designed and useful site - you pay to register for use between 9.00 and 16.00 (UK time).

i-café (UK) is Oxford University Press's online magazine with very good articles for reading. They include interactive comprehension tasks. Good for intermediate level and above. NEW LINK 2.5.08

Text to Speech (USA) is a clever site which allows students to type in text and hear it back in French. It would be a great help for students preparing for oral presentations or conversations. NEW LINK 19.4.08

The XTEC site from Catalunia, Spain, is a rich source of material of many types. Best for intermediate and advanced learners. NEW LINK 18.4.08

The Ashcombe School (UK) in Surrey, UK, has produced a brilliant site which combines, for example, video clips with Hot Potatoes. This keeps classes very quiet and productive if that's what you like! The sound quality could be better. Chapeau!

BBC Talk French has a menu of videos you could show in class or which pupils could use on their own with headphones. Recommended.

Podcast.net(UK) has lovely clear recordings to listen to.

The Northumberland Grid for Learning (UK) has animated recordings of three French fables. These would work well with lower intermediate students.

Curiosphere (Fr) has excellent archived videos for advanced learners. NEW 8.3.08

PubsTV (Fr) has archived TV commercials from around the world. NEW 8.3.08

Français-Extra (UK) has interactive games and exercises including virtual characters who talk to you while you do simple exercises. Good for near beginners or low intermediate.

Adodoc.net(Fr) has audio and video clips with exercises alongside. Very good for advanced level students.

TV5 Monde(Fr) has excellent video clips with accompanying worksheets for advanced learners. The "Cités du Monde section is very good.

Espace Francophone (Fr) has music video clips with attached exercises. Nice! NEW LINK 10.4.08

Chanson Française (Sp) - this site has songs to listen to with attached Hotpot exercises. NEW LINK 10.4.08

France 24 has archived video clips from the news. NEW LINK 10.4.08

France 2 has its own TV news clips to watch and listen to. NEW LINK 10.4.08

French Podcast has archived listening material and lessons for the MP3 generation.

Learn French by Podcast has high quality podcasts on all kinds of situations.

PodcastFrancaisFacile has podcast lessons.

TF1(Fr) , a major French TV company, has archived news clips you can stream, as well as live news, weather forecasts and so on. There is a good search facility.

Carmen Vera Pérez (Spain) has produced a fabulous range of hotpot activities for various levels. What an achievement!

The Linguascope (UK) site may be worth registering with if you are a teacher. It's a well-established site, but a subscription has to be paid though.

The Atantôt (UK) site is the best site for interactive board resources. It is becoming a subscription site in April.

Atantôt (2) has podcasts and videos for download.

B. Dyer's Frenchrevision<(UK)/a> site has lots of good resources, including archived videoclips from French TV news with exercises which can be done online.

Alcester Grammar School (UK) has a good range of resources, some of their own, including crosswords, interactive board material and vocab games.

Don't forget Auntie (BBC (UK), of course). The GCSE Bitesize tasks, including practice listening tests, are very good.

The BBC French (UK)pages have crosswords, video and listening material, mainly situational in nature, but very professional.

Katharine Lady Berkeley's School (UK) has a menu of attractive activities.

Peinture Fle is an interesting site with vocab work to do with colours and painting. One task involves listening to instructions while you draw a picture. Good fun!

Tout le Monde ( UK) is a commercial site from Heinemann for young learners, but it has some free samples.

Radio France Internationale (Fr) has news bulletins you can listen to. For advanced learners.

Extra! (Channel 4, UK) is a fun site for near beginners and low intermediate pupils which includes, for example, a section where you create a profile and find a partner.

Canalrêve is a varied and interesting site from Salzburg University, Austria and contains material for listening, reading and grammar practice. It's colourful and creative.

The Jeu de l'Oie site by Thierry Perrot covers grammar and vocab from beginners through to advanced level. It's a boardgame format where you have to get the goose home by answering multi-choice questions. Worth a peep.

The SUNY Cortland (New York, USA) site has very good resources for developing reading and vocab skills. The gapfill tasks are linked to French civilisation themes and would suit mainly advanced learners..

Franska.nu from Sweden appears to be very good, but requires an annual fee.

Le Point du FLE is an excellent source of interactive vocabulary and grammar activities (usually links to other sites).

The Christophe Laroy a French teacher from Belgium has good interactive exercises based on Paris.

Kidcity is a Belgian site. It is a good source of reading material, charming and colourful, aimed at young francophones (and Flemish speakers), but suitable for intermediate learners. It includes film and TV reviews and features on animals. Could be used with interactive board. Beware the distracting pong game!

You could try French is Great (Ca) with M. Renaud, a good Canadian site.

For something more reading based try the excellent French Polarfle (Fr) site which requires reading, writing and detective skills. Not for beginners, but very original.

There are a range of interactive tasks (some fun ones against the clock and some listening tasks) from the Departamento de Frances IES "Leonardo da Vinci" in Madrid. Instructions are in Spanish, but the aims of the tasks are obvious to non-Spanish speakers.

La Guingette (Fr) has free online texts for advanced learners and francophiles which can be read and listened to at the same time. For a small annual subscription you can access a much larger archive of many hours of listening and reading resources.

Didcot Girls School (UK) has interactive past exam papers for British students.

The BonjourdeFrance site has a wide range of information, including good vocab sections.

The Quia (USA) site is well known and worth checking out.

You should look at Laura Lawless's comprehensive About (USA) site."About the French Language - free resources for students, teachers, and lovers of French, with more than 4,000 pages of lessons, quizzes, and learning tips; 2,000+ sound files; and four forums (including one just for teachers)."

Jon Meier's Langweb (UK) site has entertaining and colourful grammar explanations, written practice and interactive Quia games. The colourful grammar notes would work well projected on to a whiteboard.

St Peter's School, York (UK) has useful vocab and grammar/comprehension material. Recommended.

The Kooiz site from France has lots of online quizzes submitted by individuals on topics such as Harry Potter, TV programmes, geography and science. These are for the more advanced learner on the whole.

The popular British Equipe (UK) course has its own online tasks.

The Linguacentral (UK) site, which incorporates mflgames, has some fun games which some teachers will like.

The Allianza Francesa (Arg) site, has a fun quiz, a mixture of cultural and linguistic material. NEW 20.04.08

There are good Hot Pot exercises at Bof! from Steve Glover (UK).

Johann Le Calvez has recently produced a comprehensive set of interactive resources, including lots of sound, called French in a Click. You have to subscribe for nearly all the material. However, there is a useful free section on jobs.

You can do online dictation at various levels at Dictées Virtuelles (Fr).

You can watch video clips with translations by visiting the Westwood Language College (UK) site.

You can listen and read texts at the Listen and Learn (UK)site


MAINLY VOCABULARY

Digital Dialects (UK) is a new site (January 2007) with some attractive, easy tasks focusing on easy vocabulary and a little grammar.

I like the vocab pages on the LanguageGuide (USA) site from Austin, Texas. The excellent pictures could be used with an interactive board very effectively.

The same teacher has produced an interactive vocabulary site called Corevocabulary.

Lexiquefle (Fr) covers basic vocab areas. You can play online or download to your computer.

I quite like this interactive vocabulary site called Vocabulaire Illustré

wordPROF allows students to read, listen and test themselves.

Lexique is not strictly interactive, but is a well illustrated, detailed and well researched vocabulary site for intermediate or advanced learners.

Interactive vocab tests (Ger) using translation and gapfill.

The Neel Method is a graded vocab translation site. Not inspiring to look at, but keen students might enjoy the challenge. NEW 5.2.08

Imagiers , a new site from Finland, is a source of downloadable images for the learning of basic vocabulary. You cannot use them online, but you can download the topics you wish to use. The pictures are excellent, and you should be able to hear the words pronounced if the software works. Students can record their own pronunciation. Download times are slow with a modem, but the resources could be handy for a network with young learners.

Try Chez Mimi (UK) for a range of visually attractive, easy vocab games.

Alienlanguage (UK) has colourful interactive vocab games, though I found accented letters did not show.

MFL Games (UK) has colourful interactive vocab games. Good for near beginners/intermediate for an unstructured session in the computer room, perhaps.




Please mail me if you come across other really good sites. Let me know too if you find errors or if any links go dead. I know how irritating it is to discover that links pages are out of date.

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